When you were a kid, what did you want to grow up to be? A mid-level bureaucrat with an ulcer named Chester? No, it just happened that way. You wanted to be an astronaut, and if failing that, another astronaut.

So we’re over the moon here at The Washington Examiner because first and third grade students at Ferebee-Hope Elementary School in Southeast D.C. are getting a visit on Tuesday from NASA’s education head, a former space shuttle astronaut. As part of Black History Month, Leland Melvin is reading aloud The Moon Over Star — about the 1969 moon landing — and regaling the kids with stories of his flight experiences.